Climate change round up - November 16, 2007
World experts have gathered in Valencia to produce a synthesis of all the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports released to date (Nature – subscription required). Thus, there is a rash of climate change news.
The Valencia meeting’s report will, according to AFP, “serve as a guide for policymakers for years to come”. Now traditional arguments between Europe, the US and other participants over the exact wordings are already underway (AP).
Even OPEC is getting in on the action. The group of oil producing nations said this week it would assist in cutting or capturing carbon emissions (Reuters). Some reports even say it is mulling over the creation of a $3 billion fund invest in emission capture technology (Times).
In Australia the former head of the country’s Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization’s atmospheric research unit warned before the meeting that current policy is based on science that is already out of date (ABC). “If you think climate change is on the agenda, just wait another couple of years,” he told the Sidney Morning Herald.
Comments
The world's problems are so large and complex that no government or governments in political concert with each other can now solve them. There is only one thing that will provide the means and solution for humankind to survive past this present century, the ORE-STEM Complex and its global interlinked Satellite Incubator Centres. For if the leading scientific minds in the world in concert cannot do this, no politician or others can. It is as simple as that. The problem is of course that politicians will not listen to the independent mind and voice. They only listen to themselves and their so-called informed advisers, but where this thinking has been found totally wrong time and time again. For just one instance amongst countless is when the chief scientific adviser to the PM in the United Kingdom in WW2 stated to the prime minister that the Germans had not the technology to produce a flying bomb. But where only two months later they were reigning down on the UK. This time though, the destructive force of nature will be reigning down on us and will do its worst. But as always it has to be said, it will be the people who ultimately suffer and not the politicians or their astute advisers. Mark my words, politicians will do relatively nothing to stem what has now been put in motion by the powerful in industry and politics in return for a quick to medium term financial return and no other. Destroying the planet in the name of self-interest is a crime against humanity and it should be seen that way.
Therefore people will have to come to the reasoning, sooner or later, that the ORE-STEM complex, thought out by some of the foremost scientific minds (the late and great US scientist Dr. Glenn Seaborg included who was the major thinker on the matter – Element 106 Seaborgium) is the only answer. For to stop the now ever-growing human destructive juggernaut in its tracks, only something of an immense undertaking of an equal magnitude will do this. The sooner politicians and industrialists realize this, the sooner the world may have a chance to prevent what is on the horizon for humankind.
Dr David Hill
World Innovation Foundation
Bern, Switzerland
www.thewif.org.uk
Ps. Note that Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC is one of the World Innovation Foundation's newest Honorary Consulting Members. There are now nearly 3,500 Global Consultant Fellows and Honorary Members of the WIF who see a new way forward for the world-at-large and a strategy for Survival in the long-term where the sustainability of the human existence is their primary objective.
Posted by: david hill | November 18, 2007 06:08 PM